Publications of Christoph Engel
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Working Paper (140)
2024
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Gewichtsformel – wörtlich genommen. Ein empirischer Test mit der Hilfe eines Sprachmodells. (2024)
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Deliberately ignoring unfairness: Responses to uncertain inequality in the ultimatum game. (2024)
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Asking GPT for the ordinary meaning of statutory terms. (2024)
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The German Constitutional Court – activist, but not partisan? (2024)
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Integrating machine behavior into human subject experiments: A user-friendly toolkit and illustrations. (2024)
2023
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Treu und Glauben: Frag GPT. (2023)
2022
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Eye-tracking as a method for legal research. (2022)
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Judicial decision-making: A survey of the experimental evidence. (2022)
2021
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Crime as conditional rule violation. (2021)
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Religion and tradition in conflict: Experimentally testing the power of social norms to invalidate religious law. (2021)
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Wettbewerb und Gemeinwohl. (2021)
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Lucky you: Your case is heard by a seasoned panel - panel effects in the German constitutional court. (2021)
2020
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Challenges in the interdisciplinary use of comparative law. (2020)
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Does the fundamental transformation deter trade? An experiment. (2020)
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Rechtswissenschaft als Sozialwissenschaft. Spurensuche im Jahrgang 2019 der ZGR. (2020)
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What the judge argues is not what the judge thinks: Eye tracking as a window into judicial decision making. (2020)
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Property is dummy proof: An experiment. (2020)
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Manna from heaven for judges: Judges’ reaction to a quasi-random reduction in caseload. (2020)
2019
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Tax morale and fairness in conflict: An experiment. (2019)
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Estimating heterogeneous reactions to experimental treatments. (2019)
2018
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The Proper Scope of Behavioral Law and Economics. (2018)
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Risk taking in the household: Strategic behavior, social preferences, or interdependent preferences? (2018)
2017
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How to Protect Entitlements: An Experiment. (2017), 27 pp.
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The Valuation of Moral Rights: A Field Experiment. (2017)
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People Are Conditional Rule Followers. (2017)
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Empirical Methods for the Law. (2017)
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Does Efficiency Trump Legality? The Case of the German Constitutional Court. (2017)
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Behaviorally Efficient Remedies – An Experiment. (2017)
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Defendant Should Have the Last Word – Experimentally Manipulating Order and Provisional Assessment of the Facts in Criminal Procedure. (2017)
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Experimental Social Planners: Good Natured, but Overly Optimistic. (2017)
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Diffusion of Legal Innovations: The Case of Israeli Class Actions. (2017)
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Committing the English and the Continental Way – An Experiment. (2017)
2016
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Experimental Criminal Law. A Survey of Contributions from Law, Economics and Criminology. (2016), 41 pp.
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A Random Shock Is Not Random Assignment. (2016), 12 pp.
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The Solidarity Motive. (2016), 20 pp.
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Risk and punishment revisited. Errors in variables and in the lab. (2016), 21 pp.
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You Are In Charge – Experimentally Testing the Motivating Power of Holding a Judicial Office. (2016), 68 pp.
2015
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Bargaining in the Absence of Property Rights: An Experiment. (2015), 46 pp.
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Insuring Your Donation – An Experiment. (2015), 33 pp.
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Tacit Collusion – The Neglected Experimental Evidence. (2015), 50 pp.
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If the Worst Comes to the Worst. Dictator Giving When Recipient’s Endowments are Risky. (2015), 46 pp.
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Modeling a Satisficing Judge. (2015), 26 pp.
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The Jurisdiction of the Man Within – Introspection, Identity, and Cooperation in a Public Good Experiment. (2015), 23 pp.
2014
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Give everybody a voice! The power of voting in a public goods experiment with externalities. (2014)
2013
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Win Shift Lose Stay – An Experimental Test of Non-Compete Clauses. (2013)
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Selfishness As a Potential Cause of Crime. A Prison Experiment. (2013)
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Behavioral Law and Economics: Empirical Methods. (2013)
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Deterrence by Imperfect Sanctions – A Public Good Experiment. (2013)
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Who is Afraid of Pirates? An Experiment on the Deterrence of Innovation by Imitation. (2013)
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Maverick: Making sense of a conjecture of antitrust policy in the lab. (2013)
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Do Explicit Reasons Make Legal Intervention More Effective? An Experimental Study. (2013)
2012
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Effort and Redistribution: Better Cousins Than One Might Have Thought. (2012)
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Assuring Adequate Deterrence in Tort: A Public Good Experiment. (2012)
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Low Self-Control As a Source of Crime. A Meta-Study. (2012)
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Neglect the Base Rate: It’s the Law! (2012)
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Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Punishment Regimes for Bribery. (2012)
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The Hog-Cycle of Law Professors. (2012)
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Estimation of the House Money Effect Using Hurdle Models. (2012)
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Conditional Cooperation With Negative Externalities – An Experiment. (2012)
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When is the Risk of Cooperation Worth Taking? The Prisoner’s Dilemma as a Game of Multiple Motives. (2012)
2011
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Has The World Changed? My Neighbor Might Know Effects of Social Context on Routine Deviation. (2011)
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Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht und ökonomische Theorie. (2011)
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Law as a Precondition for Religious Freedom. (2011)
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Law as a Precondition for Religious Freedom. Fides et Libertas pp. 18 - 35 (2011)
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Can we manage first impressions in cooperation problems? An experiment. (2011)
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The Coevolution of Behavior and Normative Expectations. Customary Law in the Lab. (2011)
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The People’s Hired Guns? Experimentally Testing the Inclination of Prosecutors to Abuse the Vague Definition of Crimes. (2011)
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Oligopoly as a Socially Embedded Dilemma. An Experiment. (2011)
2010
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At the Mercy of the Prisoner Next Door. Using an Experimental Measure of Selfishness as a Criminological Tool. (2010)
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Dictator Games: A Meta Study. (2010)
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An Experimental Contribution to the Revision of the Guidelines on Research and Development Agreements. (2010)
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An Experimental Contribution to the Theory of Customary (International) Law. (2010)
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Turning the Lab into Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon. A Lab Experiment on the Transparency of Punishment. (2010)
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Fairness Ex Ante & Ex Post – An Experimental Test of the German “Bestseller Paragraph”. (2010)
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Role Induced Bias in Court: An Experimental Analysis. (2010)
2009
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First Impressions are More Important than Early Intervention. Qualifying Broken Windows Theory in the Lab. (2009)
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Competition as a Socially Desirable Dilemma Theory vs. Experimental Evidence. (2009)
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Das schwindende Vertrauen in die Marktwirtschaft und die Folgen für das Recht. (2009)
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On Probation. An Experimental Analysis. (2009)
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We Are Not Alone: The Impact of Externalities on Public Good Provision. (2009)
2008
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Die Bedeutung der Verhaltensökonomie für das Kartellrecht. (2008)
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The Behaviour of Corporate Actors. A Survey of the Empirical Literature. (2008)
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Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker. (2008)
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Preponderance of the Evidence versus Intime Conviction A Behavioural Perspective on a Conflict between American and Continental European Law. (2008)
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REITs ante portas: Adapting German Law to the Advent of Institutional Investors in Real Estate Markets. (2008)
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Can We Trust Intuitive Jurors? Standards of Proof and the Probative Value of Evidence in Coherence Based Reasoning. (2008)
2007
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Competition in a Pure World of Internet Telephony. (2007), 19 pp.
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Geistiges Eigentum als Anreiz zur Innovation – Die Grenzen des Arguments. (2007), 33 pp.
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Incentives for Process Innovation in a Collusive Duopoly. (2007), 15 pp.
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Innovationsanreize aus Wettbewerb und Kollusion. (2007), 25 pp.
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Institutions for Intuitive Man. (2007)
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Models of Multi-Attribute Decision-Making. Implications for Institutional Analysis and Design. (2007), 15 pp.
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Tacit Collusion. The Neglected Experimental Evidence. (2007), 21 pp.
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Using Game Theory to Show the Limits of the Argument. (2007), 28 pp.
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Die verfassungsrechtliche Zulässigkeit eines Entflechtungstatbestandes im Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen als ultima ratio zur Beseitigung eines Wettbewerbsversagens. (2007), 80 pp.
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Better Than Conscious? The Brain, the Psyche, Behavior, and Institutions. (2007), 22 pp.
2006
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The Difficult Reception of Rigorous Descriptive Social Science in the Law. (2006), 45 pp.
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Herrschaftsausübung bei offener Wirklichkeitsdefinition. Das Proprium des Rechts aus der Perspektive des öffentlichen Rechts. (2006), 33 pp.
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How Much Collusion? A Meta-Analysis On Oligopoly Experiments. (2006), 62 pp.
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Wettbewerb als sozial erwünschtes Dilemma. (2006), 37 pp.